I'm sure there's a sensible reason for how it's being handled, even if we may not agree with it. I think it's a non-actionable thing for us as the consumers. Mods are primarily for customers that have already paid, very few sales are made because of them, and it costs to have employees do this mod approval process so at the absolute very best they're breaking even with mods. Capitalism sucks, but as long as we're stuck with it companies need to make profit to avoid being gobbled up or run out of business by their competirors.
I certainly wouldn't want Larian to go down the Bethesda route and turn mods into microtransactions made with outsourced labor. I'll take the waiting and unpredictable releases over that garbage fire.